Description
“Consumed in its entirety Late Spring is a soothing breeze, teleporting you directly to a grassy field in the sunshine – as transfixing as any record released thus far in 2021.” – The Vinyl Factory
“The record sounds exactly like what you would expect with a name like Late Spring; it is a meditative, hypnotic look at the human condition and its emotional spectrum, as it attempts to grasp undefinable.” – Far Out Magazine
Japanese musician Chihei Hatakeyama is set to release his new album ‘Late Spring’ on 9th April 2021. An album of a humble nature, ‘Late Spring’ gently unfolds as a shared journeying experience through a series of rich and outstanding encounters.
An extract from the liner notes by Nick Luscombe:
“For an artist who typically works quickly, Hatakeyama considers Late Spring to be one of the more time-intensive records of his career – he started working on it in 2018, and completed it towards the end of 2020. For Late Spring, Hatakeyama re-examined his approach to musical performance, using a new amplifier and microphone set-up to playback and record his guitar and synthesisers. From the cathedral organ-like opener Breaking Dawn with its sub-aqua resonances, to the subtle drift of the closing track Twilight Sea, this record is a masterpiece of dense and beatific melodies. Drawn from evolving synthesised sounds and shimmering slow motion guitars, it combines these with occasional sonic elements that are best described as evoking computer code running through the veins of the machines like artificial blood.”
Chihei Hatakeyama is a sound artist, mastering engineer, and record label founder who was born in 1978 and lives in Tokyo. He has performed for years under his given name and also as one half of the electroacoustic duo Opitope alongside Tomoyoshi Date. From his first full-length album ‘Minima Moralia’ (“Excellent” 8.1 Pitchfork) in 2006, through the subsequent 70+ albums that followed, Hatakeyama has created a mighty canon of work. His catalogue is spread across a number of highly-regarded labels, including Kranky, Room40 and his own White Paddy Mountain imprint. His release rate is unquestionably impressive, but what is even more striking is the continual high quality of each alluring album.
Tracklist
A
1 Breaking Dawn
2 Rain Funeral
3 Butterfly’s Dream
4 Sound of Air
5 Sound of Air II
6 Spica
B
1 Thunder Ringing in the Distance
2 Memory in the Screen
3 Butterfly’s Dream II
4 Long Shadows
5 Twilight Sea
Credits
All music written, performed and mixed by Chihei Hatakeyama
Chihei plays electric guitar / acoustic guitar / sound effects / modular synth / α Juno / prophet-5 rev2 / MS20-mini
Recorded, edited and mixed between December 2017 to May 2020
Mastered by Gearbox Records
Artwork photo by Stijn Hьwels
Sleeve design by Alan Foulkes
Liner notes by Nick Luscombe
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